Missing 4-year-old South Carolina girl rescued by police, suspect still on the r…

RIVERSIDE, Ala. – A missing South Carolina 4-year-old has been located and is safe, according to AL.com.

Heidi Renae Todd, who disappeared from Charleston on Tuesday evening, was rescued from a man’s car around 4 p.m. in an Alabama business parking lot.

“We give the glory and our thanks that all prayers have been answered, and that Heidi Todd is safe in the hands of the FBI,” Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg said at a press conference Wednesday, his voice breaking with emotion as the crowd let out shouts of joy, fists pumping skyward.

An officer was checking on a vehicle in Riverside when he noticed a sleeping man inside, along with a little girl who wanted out, AL.com reports.

The driver woke up and drove away as the officer was getting the girl out of the vehicle. Solicitor Scarlett Wilson identified the suspect as 37-year-old Thomas Lawton Evans. He was last seen in Alabama.